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"Jularker" was in the book Where the Lilies Bloom and the phrase was "Devola's jularker"; the other two were in the book Cold Mountain..."the horses were foul spine-sprung things, malandered about the necks, beshat greenly across the hindquarters."
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Their horses were foul spine-sprung things, malandered about the necks, beshat greenly across the hindquarters, and trailing ropy harls of yellow snot blown from all the orifices of their heads.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Their horses were foul spine-sprung things, malandered about the necks, beshat greenly across the hindquarters, and trailing ropy harls of yellow snot blown from all the orifices of their heads.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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OED:
mallender, n.
Forms: lME malandere, lME malaundyr, lME malawnder, 15 malandre, 15
malandrie...
Etymology: < Middle French malandre a sore behind a horse's knee
(c... )
Veterinary Med. Now rare.
Originally: †a sore located behind a horse's knee (obs.). Later
(in pl. and †sing.): a kind of chronic dermatitis of horses,
characterized by the presence of such sores.
mallendered adj. Obs. suffering from mallenders.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3248/4, A strong..Rigil Horse,..malender'd
on the near leg.
September 14, 2017